Merry Christmas Everyone! Santa arrived at our house early this morning.  As he left the house he yelled, Ho Ho Ho… and the twins quickly jumped out of their bed.  I hurried to get my camera out of my bedroom then we rushed downstairs to see what gifts Santa left our family.
William and Keisha were [...]

The night before my surgery, I was a complete mess.  My mind was in a million places and I was pacing the floor like a maniac.  I could not focus on one thing for long.  The twins were driving me crazy and nothing seemed to be going right.  I just wanted a peaceful evening so [...]

As I mentioned in a post the other day, I’m going to have surgery on Monday morning. This will be a diastasis recti and umbilical hernia surgery. Diastasis recti is a separation of the rectus abdominis muscle into right and left halves and was caused by my pregnancy with the twins and worsened with [...]

On Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 8:40 a.m. I was blessed to bring a wonderful baby boy into the world. His name is Alexander Richard and at birth he weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces and was 21.5 inches long.
I have not written on my blog in over 3 months and there are many reasons for [...]

On Saturday, June 13, 2009 my wonderful children, William and Keisha, will graduate from headstart.  My husband and I are very proud of them.  They have learned so much over the past school year… things like: writing their first and last names, counting to 100, improving on handwriting skills, letter recognition in words, spelling two, [...]

On June 3, 2001 I met the love of my life at a St. Louis Cardinals baseball game. That day, we played the Cincinnati Reds and we won 4-3 but other than having my ticket stub, I cannot remember much of the game.

Click the image to enlarge.  The June 3, 2001 game stats are [...]

Something Borrowed and Something Blue.
On Friday, December 5, 2008, the love of my life and I joined in holy matrimony… two souls became one before God, our family and friends.
On Sunday, November 16, JT and I had a drink (mine was Bahama Mama) and a couple of appetizers (fried mozzarella cheese sticks and popcorn shrimp) [...]

Do you ever go into a situation where you know up front that you should not be doing what you are about to do? Something is on your mind, you are not dwelling on it but nevertheless it is on your mind. You think about not saying anything about it but you go [...]

My morning did not start off so well and I let that mess up most of my day. The Bose alarm clock is set for 4:45 a.m., but I rarely hear it go off. JT is in charge of the alarm, unless I set it for myself. JT will usually turn the radio off shortly after the alarm (music) comes on. I hate the buzzer alarm because it scares me to death, so we wake up to the music instead. On a morning when we do not oversleep, JT will wake up about 20 minutes later. He then tells me it is time to get up.

Over the last year or so, I thought we had come to an understanding that unless it is absolutely necessary, I am not going to get up immediately after he tells me. I guess I was wrong with my assumption. I really hate getting up in a rush. When that happens, I usually get a headache from jumping out of my skin and I did not have an opportunity to get my thoughts together.

I did not argue with JT but deep down I believe that a part of me wanted to. I tried to explain that I just needed a few more minutes, but I got zero sympathy. None. Zilch. Nada. So, I got my pissed off ass out of bed, went into my bathroom, kept the light off, turned the space heater on, locked the door, laid a towel on the floor, put my robe on and laid on the floor for about fifteen minutes.

Then JT went to grab the kids and the next thing I know, I hear William and Keisha knocking on my bathroom door.

Nice move there.

1. Under what conditions can you have the perfect nap?

No music, no television, no other background noise, no children saying, Mommy, Mommy… and fighting, no telephone ringing and no one else talking to me (or trying to talk to me).

2. Under what conditions can you let most of your guard down?

Around people that I have known for a long while and I trust… then I can let my guard down.

3. Under what conditions can you do your best writing?

When I have some classical or jazz music playing in the background, something tasty to drink like a hot cup of green tea and no one disturbing me.

4. Under what conditions would you give away everything you own?

Everything? If I knew that I was going to die at a particular moment, then I would give away special items to loved ones.

5. Under what conditions would you kiss a stranger?

For $250,000. Enough to pay off the mortgage, other debt and buy a car.

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